Perry,

Thanks. 

I wish that, at the least, it would have returned a specific error
message but this way it's just a little mysterious. 

The hardware is a HP Pavilion 5470US laptop. Software is Ubuntu Studio
(Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn) with emphasis on graphic, sound, and video
packages and repositories. Installed the available qemu and kqemu
packages using synaptic package manager. I'd say it's non-exotic.
Anyway, I'll run the memory tests too.

It occurs to me also, if there's a way to get configure to talk more,
i.e., "configure --verbose," or "configure --debug" I'll check.

Meanwhile as plan B, I found that I can build a XO image from scratch
and then convert the image to a VMware vmdk file and use VMWare server
for now while I work out the kqemu build issues. 

(See: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/VMWare#Building_an_Image_from_Scratch )


Thanks.

P.S.

Apologize to all again for the crappy formatting in my previous message;
I jumped on a windows machine and used Firefox to read and reply to my
Optonline email; somehow a bad combination... *:-(

On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 16:23 -0500, Phil M Perry wrote:
> Well, I've never seen this before, but from the name of the test I'd 
> guess that
> the kqemu code is trying to determine whether the processor is Big-Endian
> or Little-Endian for byte order (and possibly bit order). Byte order 
> should be
> fairly easy to determine, but I can't think offhand of how to test bit 
> order.
> 
> Anyway, it sounds like either there was a system error (e.g., parity 
> glitch or
> returned values didn't match what was expected due to RAM failure), or
> several tests were run and the results were conflicting. It seems to know
> this was an Intel family processor (Little-Endian byte order). Is this a
> stock off-the-shelf system, or some kind of exotic homebrew? Try running
> a full memory test (I think one comes with Ubuntu or GRUB) just to rule
> out a RAM problem.
> 
> andy wrote:
> > I'm using Ubuntu Studio (Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn).
> >
> > Meanwhile, I'm trying to configure kqemu and do not understand the
> > following output:
> >
> >         big/little test failed
> >         Source path       /usr/src/modules/kqemu
> >         C compiler        gcc
> >         Host C compiler   gcc
> >         make              make
> >         host CPU          i386
> >         
> >         kernel sources    /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-lowlatency/build
> >         kbuild type       2.6
> >
> > What's the failure?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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